So, it's with great pleasure that I can now reveal the overall category winners of this year's Hysteria Writing Competition. All three winning entries are featured alongside the other nine finalists in their category in Hysteria 6, the anthology of…
Read More Overall category winners announced for Hysteria 2017
I'm really pleased to announce the shortlisted winners of the Hysteria Writing Competition, flash fiction, short story and poetry categories 2017. Each of these fantastic entries will be published in Hysteria 6, the anthology of this year's competition due out…
Janet Lees is one our fantastic team of judges for the Hysteria 2017 poetry category. She has numerous awards to her name including: One of 10 poets shortlisted for the National Memory Day competition 2017, an open international call on the…
Read More Meet Janet Lees, poetry category judge for Hysteria 2017
Ann Abineri is one of our amazing team of flash fiction category judges. She lives in the Cambridge area. She has had short stories, flash fiction and poetry published in Mslexia, Writer's Forum, Writing Times, Pennine Ink and Words and Women…
Read More An interview with Ann Abineri, flash fiction category judge in Hysteria 2017
The third category for the Sixth International Hysteria Writing Competition is poetry. That means a poem with the very loose theme “things of interest to women.” Oh, and a maximum of twenty lines, not including spaces. Our writer in residence Alex…
Damhnait Monaghan’s short stories, flash fiction, and creative non-fiction are published in Hysteria 4 Anthology, A Box of Stars Beneath the Bed (2016 National Flash Fiction Day Anthology), Understorey Magazine, Brilliant Flash Fiction, Still Point Arts Quarterly and The Incubator…
Read More Another interview with Damhnait Monaghan, flash fiction judge for Hysteria 2017
Natasha Bland is a member of our lovely short story judging team this year. Originally from Devon, Natasha is now based in Kapiti, New Zealand. Her short stories are published in various anthologies and have been shortlisted in competitions, including the…
Read More Meeting Natasha Bland, short story category judge for Hysteria 2017
Marie Gethins is a member of the Flash Fiction judging team for the Hysteria Writing Competition 2017. She lives and works in Cork, Ireland and is a flash fiction and short story writer with many credits to her name who…
Read More Meet Marie Gethins, flash fiction category judge for Hysteria 2017
Sue Borgersen is one our fab poetry category judges for the Hysteria Writing Competition 2017. She writes and makes art on the south shore of Nova Scotia, Canada, surrounded by boisterous dogs and a vast collection of odd musical instruments.…
Read More An interview with Sue Borgersen, poetry category judge for Hysteria 2017
Ingrid Jendrzejewski is one of the Flash Fiction team of judges for Hysteria 2017. One of two runners up for the Bath Novella-in-Flash competition, her novella (composed of stand-alone flash-fiction pieces) will the published with the novellas written by the winner and…
Read More An interview with Ingrid Jendrzejewski, Hysteria 2017 Flash Fiction Judge